Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to aveproject/ave. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aveproject/ave/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aveproject/aveWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aveproject/ave/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aveproject/ave/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aveproject/ave/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/aveproject/ave/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/aveproject/ave/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01680 | $0.01680 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00672 | $0.00672 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00336 | $0.00336 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00168 | $0.00168 |
Grade A, and why
ave CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md — aveproject/ave
Read this file completely before touching anything. Single source of truth for how work happens in this repo.
Project
aveproject/ave — the behavioral classification standard for agentic AI components. An independent standard that bawbel-scanner implements. NOT a feature of the scanner.
- Records: see dist/ave-records-latest.json (the count changes; do not hardcode it here)
- Schema: schema/ave-record-1.1.0.schema.json
- Scoring: OWASP AIVSS v0.8
- Registry: aveproject.org
- Public API: api.aveproject.org
- Scanner: github.com/bawbel/scanner (reference implementation)
This repo contains DEFINITIONS, not detections. An AVE record defines a behavioral class. A scanner Finding is one detection that references an AVE record by ave_id.
The critical distinction — read this twice
AVE Record (this repo) Finding (scanner repo)
────────────────────── ──────────────────────
static behavioral class definition runtime detection instance
authored once by a human produced by every scan
one per behavioral class one per detection
NO confidence field HAS confidence field
NO evidence_stage field HAS evidence_stage field
declares confidence_baseline assigns actual confidence
declares evidence_kind_default assigns actual evidence_kind
declares detection_stage reaches an actual evidence_stage
confidence is PER-DETECTION. It never lives in an AVE record. The record declares the BASELINE; the scanner assigns the ACTUAL value.
Record schema v1.1.0
Every record validates against schema/ave-record-1.1.0.schema.json.
15 required fields (once status is active or deprecated):
ave_id · schema_version · status · published
title · description · attack_class · severity · behavioral_fingerprint
aivss · owasp_mcp
indicators_of_compromise · remediation
references · researcher
Draft submit-required core (status: "draft" only needs these 8):
ave_id · schema_version · status · title · description · attack_class ·
behavioral_fingerprint · references
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 13d ago Changed · +9 tokens per session ca7e5e2b5fac
- 1mo ago First seen · 201 lines · 1,671 tokens per session scan A 0e66d3e227d7
ave CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aveproject/ave (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,680 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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